I start to think I will go to a trip around the earth with this new sim as he will hopefully offer us the possibility to see it as it truly is. Mainly short legs to fly low.

Does anyone thinking the same? What would be your route?

25 minutes ago, Noooch said:

I start to think I will go to a trip around the earth with this new sim as he will hopefully offer us the possibility to see it as it truly is. Mainly short legs to fly low.

Does anyone thinking the same? What would be your route?

I'm doing that now in XP11 using the FSEconomy game as a mission generator to pay for the trip. Makes it more of a challenge to pretend I'm an itinerant charter pilot needing to find work along the way, and not a billionaire doing it out of pocket for fun. 🙂

Short hops in a Carenado Pilatus PC-12, under 300 nm mostly, except for a few long overwater routes that can't be avoided. Personally, I wouldn't want anything slower, and faster would feel like cheating, but YMMV.

As for the route, I started in my home area of Washington state out on the NW coast. Flew North along coastal B.C., then along coastal Alaska over to Japan where I am now, dawdling around and enjoying the scenery before moving on. I'll take a mostly coastal route through SE Asia. It's tempting to visit New Zealand because it's one of my favorite areas for flight simming, but that may be too much of a detour. Then India and the shortest route from there to Europe, the Greenland crossing and over the northern route back to the PNW. Maybe favoring Canada because I haven't done much flying there.

It will take a long time because I can't choose the most efficient straight routes flying in FSE. Lots of zig-zagging to find paying assignments going in generally the right compass direction.

One of the first things I did in FSX was to plan a trip to visit all the high definition cities and airports and collect all the badges available.  Except for one flight, these were all continued from the last airport I landed at.  The exception was the 747 from London to Sydney, but I connected both ends of that flight with other flights.

I flew a variety of aircraft until I needed an amphibian to land at the south magnetic pole.  I fell in love with the Goose and used it as much as possible afterwards.

With approximately 400 high definition cities in the new sim, I probably won't get around to visiting them all for a while. The airports are probably similar.  We'll probably see something similar to the badges in FSX so at least that will help plan the flights.

Hook

yes actually.

In FS9 I flew across the US and back in the Mooney I think it was (you had to remember to switch fuel tanks along the way).  I used ATC and always started from where I left off.  With FSX the ATC seemed sorta messed up and with the trike I just started flying anywhere and everywhere without regard to any rules.  I wouldnt mind trying again with some rules and flying across the country discovering new places -- especially with a continent of photoreal with autogen.

and I loved the Goose as well.  It had great sound if I remember.

The sound of the Goose still gives me goosebumps! 

1 hour ago, sightseer said:

yes actually.

In FS9 I flew across the US and back in the Mooney I think it was (you had to remember to switch fuel tanks along the way).  I used ATC and always started from where I left off.  With FSX the ATC seemed sorta messed up and with the trike I just started flying anywhere and everywhere without regard to any rules.  I wouldnt mind trying again with some rules and flying across the country discovering new places -- especially with a continent of photoreal with autogen.

and I loved the Goose as well.  It had great sound if I remember.

You flew across the U.S. in the trike?  If so, that's a great accomplishment!

If that has been done in real life, surely it is some sort of record.  I know several LSA-class aircraft have gone around the world, but, I don't know of any the size of a trike flying even across the U.S.

43 minutes ago, simmerhead said:

The sound of the Goose still gives me goosebumps! 

The sound of the Goose idling from the rear external view is the most beautiful sound in all of FSX.

The Beaver had the same sound set but with only one engine it wasn't quite the same. 🙂

Hook

9 minutes ago, Mace said:

You flew across the U.S. in the trike?  If so, that's a great accomplishment!

If that has been done in real life, surely it is some sort of record.  I know several LSA-class aircraft have gone around the world, but, I don't know of any the size of a trike flying even across the U.S.

 No.  In the Mooney.  my goodness that would be a feat.

I will fly from Manchester (where I live) to Carlisle because it’s a flight I know well in real life, the scenery should be lovely and variable and it’s a good mix of sprawling city and wide open mountain ranges. 

1 minute ago, Superdelphinus said:

I will fly from Manchester (where I live) to Carlisle because it’s a flight I know well in real life, the scenery should be lovely and variable and it’s a good mix of sprawling city and wide open mountain ranges. 

Tell me you have Orbx TrueEarth for Great Brittain... 😀 wonderful wonderful package and exactly the reason us simmers shouldn't shun any of the flight sims out there, try them all!

No, the last orbx thing I bought was the fsx Britain one. I just got xp11 and really like it, but really just treating it like a stop gap until this comes out. 

Also, frustratingly, orbx have yet to release this for prepar3d. 😞

Yes, it is definitely frustrating waiting for ORBx TrueEarth GB Central and North to be released for P3D

When did orbx get into xplane anyway? Last time I was into flight sims they were adamant that the market wasn’t there for them. 

2 hours ago, Superdelphinus said:

When did orbx get into xplane anyway? Last time I was into flight sims they were adamant that the market wasn’t there for them. 

They had a (cough) change of heart when XP11 came out. 😄